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Bales of hay sit just beyond a field of corn in central Kentucky last week.
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Ernie Weaver, a volunteer at the Circleville Pumpkin Show, writes the weight on this 433-pound pumpkin.
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A small crane was used to hoist pumpkins onto a scale and then onto a flatbed truck for display at the 100th annual Circleville, Ohio Pumpkin Festival.
(Doug Graves photo) |
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Thousands of pumpkins and gourds were on display during the four-day Circleville Pumpkin Show.
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Joe Speakman, Vic Riffle and Paul Woods were three of a dozen growers and engineers who worked for 14 months in creating a 14-foot pie pan, oven and pie for the 100th Circleville Pumpkin Show.
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Visitors to Gorman Farm in Hamilton County, Ohio retreat from the four-acre field of sunflowers with their small harvests.
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Gorman Farm in Evendale, Ohio allows visitors to get away from city life and witness how life was on a farm in the early 1900s.
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Sunflowers lured visitors to the 170-year-old Gorman Farm in Hamilton County, Ohio last week.
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Stephanie Kaufman and her daughter, Grace, both of Cincinnati, Ohio, inspect a sunflower stem before taking the elaborate flower home with them.
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An old corn crip is reused as a display for school groups and other visitors to Hackman's Farm Market and Greenhouse near Columbus, Ind.
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Hackman's Farm Market and Greenhouse near Columbus, Ind. has enjoyed a bumper crop of pumpkins this year.
(Richard Sitler photo) |
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A display of gourds are just a part of the products offered at Hackman's Farm Market near Columbus, Ind.
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These pumpkins on the vine are a small portion of a record crop at the Hackman farm this year.
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Pumpkins are everywhere at Hackman's Farm Market. The farm had its biggest pumpkin crop ever this year.
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This pumpkin has "Hackman Market" etched on it.
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Jacob Hall, freshman at RCHS, sorts apples that his classmates picked during a service project last weekend.
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Cliff Marlatt (left) talks with Junior Kuhn as they take a break harvesting apples at Kuhn's Orchard last week.
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RCHS FFA President Brian Marlatt said that the service project that brought 30 members of the school's FFA program to Kuhn's Orchard last weekend was mostly student-promoted and organized in under a week.
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Pam Kuhn was touched by the FFA students' willingness to help at her family's apple orchard after they learned about her fight with cancer.
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Brian Ripberger, senior at RCHS, transferred the apples he picked at Kuhn's Orchard.
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Kaylee Marlatt helped organize the service project that brought 30 of her fellow RCHS FFA members to Kuhn's Orchard last Sunday.
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Evan Gordon, a junior at Rushville Consolidated High School, climbed high to harvest apples at Kuhn's Orchard. He was one of about 30 FFA members to help at the orchard last weekend.
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A combine unloads during the field demonstrations at the Farm Science Review.
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A Farm Science Review visitor looks over a row of Allis Chalmers tractors.
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